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Show Chess as a Mind Drill, When tho Romans placed over the door of tho temple of Junus "Kx Orlento Lux ot Ludum Scacchorum" (out of tho Kast c.une llj;ht and tho ijaino of diem) they hikiKu of the two Kroatoat hohests that tho storied Kast had ever made to tho young and iik Krcsslvo West tho IlKht of rellKlon I and tho Kieatest mental uc movement I of man since he came through Eden's I frownliiK' portals. In the middle ages when (ho monks and abbots watched from afar the brutal bru-tal soldlory of ChrUtendom swooping down like u pehtllcnco on tho sunuy plains of tho South they chanted "A turoro Normnnoruin libera nus, O Dominie" Do-minie" (from tho fury of the Northmen North-men deliver us, O God) and teturiiud to chess all thnt was loft a noble soul In a vain aud turbulent world. Chess Is tho finest mental drllhnas-tor drllhnas-tor tho world has over known. As a mind trnlner It ranks above Greek and dlatestlcs. Uut above nil Is tho science of battle. bat-tle. It Is war without bloodshed, It Is btrlfo on equal terms, which all the race loves and to which from tho cradle cra-dle to tho grave all mortality la subject. |